Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?
Stella GibbonsFlora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.
Stella GibbonsCurious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
Stella GibbonsOn the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.
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